A sense of uncertainty can cause you to feel anxious today and may prompt you to question whether your short-term efforts are indeed worthwhile. This reluctance to move forward is likely the result of the expectations that have formed in your mind as you pursued your long-term goals. Since the future is far off, you may predict that your endeavors will amount to naught. Yet even though your dreams have inspired you in the past, you may be able to better serve yourself by divesting yourself of expectations entirely. If you devote yourself meticulously to the tasks before you today, whether they relate to your ambitions or not, you will likely find that your approach to success becomes more balanced.

Our expectations can wield no power over us when we ground ourselves in the details of the task at hand, however mundane or magical our objectives. Feelings of disappointment are often the result of unfulfilled anticipationówe fuel our enthusiasm for our endeavors with visions of grand outcomes and feel let down when our plans go awry. When we immerse ourselves in the intricacies of our efforts, however, we cannot help but devote the entirety of our attention to what is unfolding around us in the present moment. Our thoughts cannot stray into the realm of speculation, and we can be hopeful without binding our eventual happiness to exacting conclusions that may or may not come to pass. Your uncertainty will melt into optimism today when you divest yourself of your emotional attachment to specific expectations regarding your future.

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